Food for the Hungry (FH) M & E Officer Job in Marsabit, Kenya

Job Title: M & E Officer 
 

Department: Administration
 

Location: Marsabit
 

Reports To: M & E Manager
 

Closing date: 1st August 2014

Mission Statement: Motivated by Christ's love, this position plays a key role in promoting the wholistic ministry of Food for the Hungry (FH) through the framework of the organization’s vision, “God called and we responded until physical and spiritual hungers ended worldwide.” 

In order to accomplish this vision, FH’s mission is to “walk with churches leaders and families in overcoming all forms of human poverty by living in healthy relationship with God and His creation.”

Purpose of the Job: To support programs in FH Kenya through the development, implementation and monitoring of a sound M&E frame work.

Essential Tasks and Responsibilities

Key result # 1 – Monitoring and evaluation needs assessment

• Determine information needs of project management, implementing partners and primary stakeholders, and funding agencies.
• Identify and design performance questions, key indicators and targets for each project component.
• Review the relevance of existing social and economic data for the project area.
• Create the TOR, designing and costing out a baseline survey and a needs assessment survey (as appropriate);
• Review existing M&E and management information systems of each project and identify needs for support.

Key result # 2 - Data management and reporting

• Collect, compile and analyze data and reports and create consolidated progress reports.
• Support establishment of data collection systems within programs when requested/review existing data collection tools on regular basis.
• Review monitoring reports and assess interim impacts and causes of potential bottlenecks in implementation.
• Support teams review and reflect on project implementation processes to enhance learning and replication of best practices
• Support staffs to comply with set M&E systems and ensure timely update of M&E software.

Key result # 3: M&E information sharing

• Guide and supervise organizations/individuals that are sub-contracted to implement special surveys or studies required for evaluating project effects and impacts.
• Provide training on M&E and facilitate M&E design and implementation processes with implementing partners and primary stakeholders.
• Provide support to implement the M&E plan, revise and update performance questions, indicators, methods, formats and analytical processes.
• Verify performance information provided by program teams to ensure accuracy
• Enhance community M&E mechanisms/structures through participatory processes
• Follow up on project quality implementation through regular project field visits

Key result # 4: Capacity strengthening of communities and staff on M&E

• Strengthen the capacity of project implementing staff on M&E.
• Assess the capacity of communities in implementation of M&E activities
• Strengthen the capacity of local implementing committees and partners on Participatory Monitoring and evaluation.

Qualifications

• A strong Christian committed to serving the poor.
• Experience in community participatory methodologies such as PRA, PUA, Rapid Appraisals, Barrier analysis Gender analysis etc.
• Strong facilitation skills
• Strong analytical and report writing skills
• Good understanding of project planning, implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation processes.
• Good contextual knowledge of local issues, community priorities, organizational relationships, social and cultural constraints and realities, and environmental condition.
• knowledge of statistical computer packages e.g. SPSS, EPI-INFO etc.
• Knowledge on GIS is an added advantage and excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite and highly organized and able to multitask.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree – in Social Science, Statistics, project management, community development or a related field, and at least three years experience in an NGO set up

Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications, details of current salary, updated CV with three referees  and day telephone contacts, not later than 1st August 2014 to: 

Human Resources Manager,

P.O Box 14978 - 00800 

Nairobi

or email address hr_fhkenya@fh.org